RE: DDLs -- was Re: simple question on DDL

> I think DDL and DML are two different things and should not be mixed
> together. If they are mixed together, then developers need to learn how
it
> works and deal with it.

And there you have it.

If you need DDL in your code, isolate it in an anonymous transaction, or just be
sure that you are at a safe commit point.

jared

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Hemant,

My guess is that Oracle, at some point in time long ago, decided that DDL's
and DML's should not be mixed together. Because they could not (or did not
want to) deal with the issue, they decided to perform an implicit commit before any DDL statement was issued. Case closed. This is the way it was done.

Things have changed in the (more than??) 10 years that this code was written. We are all smarter and have much more experience in what we would
like to see happen, rather than how it is currently coded. Could Oracle change this code? Absolutely. Will they? Only if enough people ask for it
to be changed. Would I like to see it changed? No. I really don't see the
need. I think DDL and DML are two different things and should not be mixed
together. If they are mixed together, then developers need to learn how it
works and deal with it.

just my 2 cents.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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